This series discusses the new research equipment being purchased for theHancock Research lab, funded by the NSF, and discusses what types ofprojects would make sense on this equipment and look at specific types ofadditional hardware and software that would be ideal to aid in faculty research.

Carl Parris is a Senior Technical Staff Member in System z Strategy, Design and Performance analysis. He has been with IBM for 30 years and has been working on the mainframe and System z for all of that time.